Here you will find contemporary artists worldwide who are over the age of 50 years and have taken over the past year the highest percentage gain in attention in the art scene. A score of 50 points in the year before is one condition for the selection, as well as an overall score of at least 500 in the years since 2004.
| ranking | artist's name | country | lives in | birth date | born in | medium | gain 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Lewis | GB | London | 1957 | Hamilton | video / film | 1110 % |
| 2 | Krzysztof Wodiczko | PL | Boston | 1943 | video / film | 666.7 % | |
| 3 | Arto Lindsay | US | Salvador (BR) | 1953 | sound / music | 657.9 % | |
| 4 | Sophie Ristelhueber | FR | Paris | 1949 | photography | 637 % | |
| 5 | Anne & Patrick Poirier | FR | 1942 | installation | 595.5 % | ||
| 6 | Jef Geys | BE | Balen, Vorst | 1934 | multimedia | 501 % | |
| 7 | William Forsythe | US | New York | 1949 | New York | performance | 457.6 % |
| 8 | Lutz Dammbeck | DE | Dresden | 1948 | Leipzig | mixed media | 447.7 % |
| 9 | Charles LeDray | US | New York | 1960 | sculpture / plastik | 342.3 % | |
| 10 | Sheela Gowda | IN | London | 1957 | painting | 332.6 % | |
| 11 | Lucas Samaras | GR | 1936 | painting | 328 % | ||
| 12 | Pierre et Gilles | FR | Paris | 1953 | Paris | painting | 322 % |
| 13 | Lois & Franziska Weinberger | AT | Vienna | 1947 | mixed media | 309.4 % | |
| 14 | Herman de Vries | NL | Eschenau/DE | 1931 | installation | 307.6 % | |
| 15 | Sandro Chia | IT | Montepulciano | 1946 | Florence | painting | 306.2 % |
| 16 | Valérie Favre | CH | Berlin | 1959 | painting | 300 % | |
| 17 | Ulay | DE | 1943 | video / film | 291.7 % | ||
| 18 | Clegg & Guttmann | New York | 1957 | mixed media | 289.3 % | ||
| 19 | Dexter Dalwood | GB | London | 1960 | painting | 289.3 % | |
| 20 | Tim Rollins and K.O.S. | US | New York | 1955 | painting | 288.5 % | |
| 21 | Elena Elagina | RU | Moscow | 1949 | painting | 283.3 % | |
| 22 | Amy Simon | US | Stockholm | 1957 | photography | 260 % | |
| 23 | Arno Fischer | DE | Leipzig | 1927 | Berlin | photography | 247.7 % |
| 24 | Edward Burtynsky | CA | 1955 | photography | 245.9 % | ||
| 25 | Konrad Klapheck | DE | Düsseldorf | 1935 | Düsseldorf | painting | 231 % |
| 26 | James Rosenquist | US | Florida | 1933 | painting | 230.3 % | |
| 27 | Akira Kanayama | JP | 1926 | painting | 224.7 % | ||
| 28 | Mischa Kuball | DE | Düsseldorf | 1959 | Düsseldorf | installation | 223.3 % |
| 29 | Ron Arad | IL | London | 1951 | design/fashion/graphics | 220.4 % | |
| 30 | Stephan Dillemuth | DE | Munich | 1954 | Büdingen | multimedia | 210.6 % |